Raya Martin & Guests
The Great Cinema Party
_February 25, 2012
Saturday, 6PM
By invitation (only)
A performance party featuring film personalities and guest musicians.
Raya Martin is the first Filipino filmmaker to be accepted in Cinéfondation Résidence of the Cannes Film Festival. A Short Film About the Indio Nacional (or the Prolonged Sorrow of the Filipinos) (2005), his first feature film, won Best Film at the Pesaro Film Festival. His second feature, Autohystoria (2007), was awarded Best Film and Best Director at the Cinemanila International Film Festival. Now Showing (2008), an almost five-hour-long film, was screened at the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight in 2008. His following works Independencia (2009) and Manila (2009) were shown at Cannes in 2009, becoming the first Filipino to screen two films in the festival’s Official Selection in the same year. Independencia won Best Southeast Asian Film and the NETPAC award at the Bangkok International Film Festival 2009. His latest film, Buenas Noches, España (2011) is presented this year at Locarno in Fuori concorso.
Saturday, 6PM
By invitation (only)
A performance party featuring film personalities and guest musicians.
Raya Martin is the first Filipino filmmaker to be accepted in Cinéfondation Résidence of the Cannes Film Festival. A Short Film About the Indio Nacional (or the Prolonged Sorrow of the Filipinos) (2005), his first feature film, won Best Film at the Pesaro Film Festival. His second feature, Autohystoria (2007), was awarded Best Film and Best Director at the Cinemanila International Film Festival. Now Showing (2008), an almost five-hour-long film, was screened at the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight in 2008. His following works Independencia (2009) and Manila (2009) were shown at Cannes in 2009, becoming the first Filipino to screen two films in the festival’s Official Selection in the same year. Independencia won Best Southeast Asian Film and the NETPAC award at the Bangkok International Film Festival 2009. His latest film, Buenas Noches, España (2011) is presented this year at Locarno in Fuori concorso.